Ghanaian international reggae artiste and Grammy Award nominee Rocky Dawuni has cleared the air on who really can be considered a Grammy nominee.
And according to Rocky Dawuni, being featured on an album that has been nominated for a Grammys doesn’t make the artiste a nominee. This is because there are rules governing who is or should be a nominee.
He was speaking on Citi TV this week, when Rocky Dawuni acknowledged the value a nomination adds to the craft of any musician, but it should not be taken likely.
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“There is a lot of confusion, as you would understand, Grammy nomination is for a body of work, so there is a difference between a nominee for a Grammy and also featuring to be part of a song of a Grammy-nominated album”.
“You have contributed to the song, but you are not a nominee. The thing is, I am not the one saying it; you should go to the Academy website and see who are the nominees,” he cleared the air.
Rocky Dawuni went on to say; “I think that sometimes…being featured on a record is a great achievement; it’s really great… but we have to also recognise what is… we can’t create our own rules here and be using those rules.”
“I see some of our media houses too not doing their due diligence because if you are a reputable media house, and you are also taking information that is not really the right information, then it diminishes”.
Because the value of the Grammy… we have to keep the value of the Grammy so that people strive for it.
“It’s not something that I wanna do like I am a nominee or something like that,” Rocky Dawuni concluded.
Dawuni’s comments come in the wake of allegations that the Grammy Awards have also nominated Ghanaian act Stonebwoy because he featured on albums that have been nominated.
Ghana’s Rocky Dawuni has been nominated for the 64th Grammy Awards. We wish him all the best of luck and pray her brings the award to Africa.
Ewurama Acheampoma